Types of Variable Stars (incomplete sample):
This page is based on OGLE-III data. The OGLE website can be viewed here: ogle.astrouw.edu.pl
If you make use of these plots please cite OGLE original papers.
Note, however, that data presented here come from an independent reduction of OGLE-III data by Szymon Kozlowski (from his PhD thesis).
Note: The light curves presented below come from one field centered roughly at the Galactic Centre. So it is very likely that stars presented
here are ~8 kpc away. This clearly means that the geometric distance modulus is ~14.5 mag. This field suffers from ~1 mag extinction (this is
actually a low extinction field). The rough estimation of the abolute magnitude of a star (here in filter I) is its apparent magnitude minus
15.5 mag. This does not take into account blending (meaning that the star may be fainter). For example first RR Lyrae variable star would have
absolute I magnitude of ~0.5 mag.
RR Lyrae variable stars
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_RRa.ps
Another example: var_RRa_2.jpg, var_RRa_2.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_RRa.ps
Another example: var_RRc_2.jpg, var_RRc_2.ps
Mira-like variable stars
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_Mira-like.ps
Another example: var_Mira-like_2.jpg, var_Mira-like_2.ps
Eclipsing binary stars
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_EclEA.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_EclEB_2.ps
Another example: var_EclEB.jpg, var_EclEB.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_EclEW.ps
Another example: var_EclEW_2.jpg, var_EclEW_2.ps
Another example: var_EclEW_3.jpg, var_EclEW_3.ps
Another example: var_EclEW_4.jpg, var_EclEW_4.ps
Microlensing events
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_microl.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_microl_bin.ps
Irregular variable stars
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_1.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_2.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_3.ps
Postscript file can be downloaded here: var_4.ps
Last modified: 28 Sep 2008